Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 79% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 30 August 2004 at 02:22.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2004 after 25 days on 28 September 2004 at 13:09.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 57 of Meeus index or 1010 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 5 minutes and it is 46 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠234° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.4°.
7 days since point of perigee on 27 August 2004 at 05:37 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 September 2004 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 394 918 km (245 391 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 464 km (251 322 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 06:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 17 September 2004 at 14:51 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 25 August 2004 at 20:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.776° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.870° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2004 at 09:40 in ♋ Cancer.
At 06:34 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 11 days on 14 September 2004 at 14:29 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov